German Maut, GoBD, and Multi-Country Compliance: A Carrier’s Guide
TL;DR — A carrier operating across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland faces three separate toll systems (Maut, GO-Box, LSVA), GoBD bookkeeping compliance, EU 561 driving hours, Smart Tachograph requirements, and IFTA-equivalent fuel tax tracking. Managing these manually through separate systems is a full-time administrative job. A TMS built for the DACH region handles all of them […]
EU 561 and Tachograph Compliance: What Small Carriers Get Wrong
TL;DR — EU Regulation 561/2006 and Smart Tachograph requirements are enforced through roadside checks and periodic audits. Small carriers frequently accumulate violations not from intentional non-compliance, but from inadequate monitoring systems. Fines are assessed per violation type and can add up quickly across an audit covering several drivers and months of records — violations that […]
